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SoloProtect Lone Worker Blog

A blog about all things lone worker.

Welcome to the SoloProtect Lone Worker blog, here we'll leave information, opinion, pass comment in relation to the issues affecting the lone worker industry, trends around standards, best practice, and risks to lone workers and the businesses and industries employing staff who work alone.

Ah, Black Friday. The day of rude and exhilarating awakening to the Christmas shopping season, fraught with traffic and long lines, anxieties over the best deals and the perfect gifts, and a sense of us versus them as survival instincts take over. For man

Last week at SoloProtect we had our annual recertification audit for Cyber Essentials Plus, and on the back of passing an NSI Alarm Receiving Centre audit last month, I'm pleased to announce we successfully passed.

By Mark Smith, Director of IT & Infrastructure SoloProtect
Posted on November 2 2017

Private and public healthcare organisations frequently rely on a workforce that engages with, and is often based within the local community. This means staff are frequently travelling, potentially working in the evening or at weekends, and can be working

Employees that have tasks working at heightened distances should be well trained and be aware of the risk that they face. The focus of this blog is to inform employers of the risk their employees face working from height by providing risk assessment tips.

A national employee survey by job site Glassdoor has revealed the worst companies to work for in the UK, and employees at three of these companies have cited lone working as one of the reasons behind their despondency.